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Patent GB-370584-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to oil engines
IPC: F02B19/14
Filed: 1931-02-26
Abstract: 370,584. Oil engines. OMO AKT.- GES., 11, Tiefenhofe, Zurich, Switzerland. Feb. 26, 1931, No. 6045. Convention date, April 9, 1930. Addition to 301,482, [Class 7 (iii), Internal-combustion engines, Carburetting - apparatus &c. for]. [Class 7 (iii).] The parent Specification describes a vaporizer in which a hot bulb 8 is arranged so that part of the air enters through an opening 11 and strikes fuel issuing from a fuel nozzle 12 to form a whirling rich mixture which is diluted by air that passes through an annular space 9 around the hot bulb. A heating coil 16 is provided for starting. According to the invention, the upper wall of the channel 17 which connects the cylinder 5 and the mixing chamber 10 follows a gentle curve that extends from the cylinder axis to the spraying point of the fuel nozzle 12 and directs the air against the mouth of the nozzle. Also, the piston has a flat top which enables the compression space to be reduced to a minimum.
Patent GB-289211-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to clutches
IPC: F16D13/20
Filed: 1927-03-05
Abstract: 289,211. Wigglesworth & Co., Ltd., F., and Wigglesworth, G. March 5, 1927. Clutches, friction.-In friction clutches, the lateral expansion of one or more longitudinally compressible lengths of roller chain or the like is utilized to cause engagement of driving and driven surfaces. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a pulley &c. P, loosely mounted on a driving sleeve S<1>, is formed with an annular recess in which are located split rings P', P<2> between which are arranged lengths C of roller chains accommodated in recesses in a pair of loose rings C<1>, C<2>, the ends of the recesses serving as thrust surfaces. At one point the rings C<1>, C<2> are divided or recessed to accommodate a cam B carried by a spindle B<3> mounted in a flange S<3> on the driving sleeve and adapted to be rotated by means of a slidable cone member D acting upon an arm B<4> adjustably secured to the spindle. When turned, the cam acts through wearing blocks C<6> to thrust the rings C<1>, C<2> in opposite directions causing the chains to press the split rings P<1>, P<2> apart into gripping engagement with the annular surfaces of the pulley recess. The cam B may be arranged in a bracket or bearing member F secured to the face of the flange S<3>. The flange may be provided with a guard rim S<2> and a counter-balancing segment S<4>. The chain rollers may run on raised tracks on the split rings P<1>, P<2>. The invention may be applied to plate or disc clutches.
Patent GB-571533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to direct reading dial gauges
IPC: G01B3/22
Filed: 1944-04-18
Abstract: 571,533. Surface gauges. CARTER, J. E., and HOLCOMBE, P. A. April 18, 1944, No. 6248/43. [Class 106 (ii)] A direct reading dial gauge for measurement of internal and external dimensions comprises a number of locating feelers 1, 2, 4 and a measuring feeler 3 pivotally mounted at 7 in lugs c on the top of a casing a and extending into the interior of the casing, the extensions 5 of the locating feelers being half the length of the feelers 1, 2, 4, while the extension 6 of the measuring feeler is equal to the length of the measuring feeler 3. Bias springs are associated with the pivots tending to close the locating feelers 1, 2, 4 and open the measuring feeler 3. The locating feelers are adjusted by a slidable coned ring 10 which contacts balls e in the extensions 5 while adjustment of the measuring feeler 3 is effected by a wedge-shape member 12 secured to the ring 10 and adapted to engage the extension 6 of the feeler 3. Movement of the extension 6 is communicated to the stem 20 of the dial gauge 18.
Patent GB-603232-A (GB)
Title: A machine for use in gapping or thinning crops
IPC: A01B41/04
Filed: 1946-05-30
Abstract: 6 0 3,2 3 2. Agricultural implements. MASTERS, A. T. May 30, 1946, No. 6254/45. [Class 6(i)] In a machine for gapping or thinning root crops, a framework suspended below the frame of a tractor carries two or more sets of knives which rotate in vertical planes at right angles to the direction of movement of the machine, their cutting edges entering the soil at intervals across the plant rows, the said knives being rotated by the ground wheels of the tractor through the medium of a transverse shaft' geared to longitudinal shafts each carrying a set of knives. As shown the framework 1 is carried beneath a tractor being pivotally supported by brackets 3. The knife-sets two in number are mounted on spaced shafts 10 and are driven from a transverse shaft 7 by bevel gears, a clutch coupling 20 at each end of the shaft 7 being connected to a lever 24 to disengage the chain drive to the shaft from the ground wheels 19. The depth of penetration of the blades is varied by a lever 23 which allows the framework 1 to pivot about the axle 7. The distance apart of the knife-sets may be adjusted to suit the plant rows.
Patent GB-681830-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to labelling machines
IPC: B65C9/08
Filed: 1950-03-14
Abstract: 681,830. Labelling machines. MORGAN FAIREST. Ltd.. and FAIREST, D. H. Feb. 26, 1951. [March 14, 1950] No. 6304/50. Class 73. In a labelling machine of the type described in Specification 624,246, the label feeding mechanism is modified. A label is applied to an article 14 by rolling it over the gummed side of a label 12B held by suction on a transfer box 13. A suction pusher 11 picks up a label at the position 10, by its gummed side, from a plate (not shown) to which it is adhering by wet gum and moves to 10A where the label is transferred to the box 13. Suction is applied continuously to all faces of the box 13 from a chamber 21 connected through sealing and seating rings to individual tubes leading to the holes on the box faces. The box may removed readily to allow replacement of the box faces according to the size of the label to be applied. The suction chamber 21 is connected to supply tubes 39, 41 of the pusher 11 by a valve box 32 operated by a rotating cam 34 to admit suction only while the pusher moves from 10 to 10A. A filter 40 connects the tubes 39, 41 preventing dust from entering the valve box 32.
Patent GB-141863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in buckles and fastening devices and in the manufacture of the same
IPC: A44B11/10
Filed: 1919-03-14
Abstract: 141,863. France, A. G. March 14, 1919. Buckles.-A prongless buckle of the sliding-bar type is formed from a double rectangular frame a, Fig. 6, folded back on itself but leaving a space for the sliding bar b, Fig. 4, to work in, the bar b being secured by bending its ends e over the side ba.rs f of the frame. The centre bar c of the frame forms a trough into which the material is drawn by the bar b and gripped. The two end bars d are brought close together and form the attachment bar for one end of the strap g.
Patent GB-311030-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to devices for charging greaseguns and the like
IPC: F16N37/02
Filed: 1928-03-01
Abstract: 311,030. Margam, W. March 1, 1928. Bottling.-In a device for charging grease-guns &c. a plunger 9 is reciprocated relatively to a sleeve 6 by an operating bush which is attached to the plunger through a slot in the sleeve. In use, the plunger 9 is withdrawn into the sleeve and the latter is filled by plunging into bulk grease. The sleeve is inserted in the grease gun and while the plunger is held in position the sleeve 6 is retracted.
Patent GB-1375922-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of flooring plasters and building materials by the flow  process
IPC: C04B40/00
Filed: 1972-02-11
Abstract: 1375922 Gypsum floorings BAYER AG 11 Feb 1972 [17 Feb 1971] 6488/72 Heading C1H A building material, e.g. a floor, is obtained by mixing anhydrous gypsum with water, ratio of water to gypsum of 0À25-0À40:1 in a mixer rotating at 150-1400 revs./min. and delivering the resulting fluid to the site. Optionals are wood, cork, vermiculite, perlite, quartz, sand, Ca(OH) 2 , and accelerators, e.g. A.M.; A.E.M.; Fe and Al sulphates; and retarders, e.g. phosphates, citric and tartaric acids and their salts.
Patent GB-563203-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electrical resistance elements
IPC: H01C17/245
Filed: 1943-04-22
Abstract: 563,203. Resistance coatings. SANGAMO WESTON, Ltd. April 22, 1943, No. 6525. Convention date, July 1, 1942. [Class 37] An electric resistance of predetermined high value is made from a blank of the form shown in Fig. 2 consisting of a ceramic rod or tube 1 on which is deposited a hard layer of carbon 2 by heating in a hydrocarbon gas. Terminal bands 4 are riveted on to conducting end segments 3 and a layer of waterproof lacquer 6 is applied. The blank is then placed in a lathe and a spiral groove 7, Fig. 4, is cut so as to increase the resistance to about 90 per cent of its desired value. A second layer of waterproof lacquer 8 is applied after drying. The element is then'replaced in the lathe and'a second groove 9, Fig. 6, of greater pitch is cut until the resistance is about 1 per cent less than the desired value. The element is then dried and a third waterproof layer 10 is applied. The resistance rises slightly during the drying so that the final value is within 1 per cent of the desired value.
Patent GB-471525-A (GB)
Title: Bar-feed arrangements for lathes and like machine-tools
IPC: B23B13/00
Filed: 1936-03-04
Abstract: 471,525. Turning. HERBERT, Ltd., A., and LLOYD, A. H. March 4, 1936, No. 6534. [Class 83 (iii)] In a bar-feed arrangement for a lathe or like machine-tool of the kind adapted for having a length of bar or other stock intermittently fed to an operator-controlled chuck, servo means is provided for feeding and retracting the stock-gripping member responsively to the operator-controlled chuck movements. The chuck-operating piston of the device may be moved by compressed air under the control of a foot-pedal 25, Fig. 1. A rod 14 projecting from this piston is provided with collars which actuate a lever 19 with a certain amount of lost-motion thereby controlling ball valves which admit compressed air alternately to the ends of a piston 20 for actuating a reciprocating gripper 21. The stock is fed forward after the chuck has opened on one depression of the pedal, the next depression causing the chuck to close and the gripper to be retracted ready for a further feed movement. Specifications 420,616 and 461,462 are referred to.
Patent GB-1074751-A (GB)
Title: Sterilizing fruit and vegetables
Inventor: WHITBY HENRY AUGUSTUS MORTON
IPC: A23B7/154
Filed: 1965-02-16
Abstract: Fruit and vegetables are sterilized by soaking in an aqueous composition containing extracts of garlic and Spanish onion, peppermint oil, and sodium chloride.ALSO:Fruit and vegetables are sterilized by soaking in an aqueous composition containing extracts of garlic and Spanish onion, peppermint oil, and sodium chloride.
Patent GB-725841-A (GB)
Title: Machine for contouring and bevelling workpieces of wood, metal or other materials
IPC: B27B13/04
Filed: 1953-03-10
Abstract: 725,841. Sawing. SAUNDERSROE (ANGLESEY), Ltd., and LEECH, L. March 8, 1954 [March 10, 1953], No. 6600/53. Class 145. A machine for shaping bevelled and curved workpieces of wood, metal or other material, particularly the ribs of wooden boats, comprises a table 10, on which is supported a workpiece 11 fitted with a template 12 on its upper surface and a template 13 on its lower surface, a feeler 25 co-operating with the upper template to control the tilting of a saw 14 in order to determine the amount of bevel along the workpiece, a pneumatically or hydraulically-operated jack 31 bearing on the lower template and holding the workpiece and template assembly in engagement with a fixed guide pin 30 and a movable guide pin 34, and feeler means 36 co-operating with the lower template to control the position of the guide pin 34 so that as the workpiece is fed past the saw by hand or power means, it is cut according to the profile determined by the lower template. As described, a band saw 14 carried by a frame 17 is pivoted about the point of intersection 18 of the saw and table by a rack 20, the rack being connected to a hydraulic jack 23 controlled by the feeler 25 through a valve 24 and follow-up link 26. The feeler 36 is a lever pivoted at 37 on a spring-loaded slide 38 and has two arms 35 that bear on the workpiece on either side of the fixed guide pin 30 so that, as the work is fed by rollers 40, 41 driven from a motor 44, the lever will tilt if the workpiece deviates from its proper course and will operate one or other of two switches 46, 47 to control a relay-operated valve and supply pressure fluid to one or other of a pair of hydraulic jacks 55, 56 connected by an oscillation damping unit 57. The jacks are connected to opposite ends of a bar 33 carrying the movable guide pin 34 and the pin is thus moved in the direction appropriate to correct the deviation of the workpiece. By reversing the workpiece, its other face can be shaped, the upper template again determining the bevel and the lower template determining the profile. In the modification shown in Fig. 7, the feeler 125 co-operating with the upper template has a slot 58 for the saw and is connected by rods 59 to a bar 61 for actuating a hydraulic control valve 124; the Y-shaped feeler 36 is replaced by a pair of sliding rods 135 which bear on a centrallypivoted lever actuating the switches 46, 47 through adjustable screws. The Provisional Specification also refers to a rotary cutter for shaping and bevelling wooden members.
Patent GB-1170562-A (GB)
Title: A Continuous Meat-Cutting Machine with a Screw Feeding Device
Inventor: VISCONTI ANTONIO
IPC: B02C18/30
Filed: 1968-02-09
Abstract: 1,170,562. Cutting meat. A. VISCONTI. 9 Feb., 1968 [29 Sept., 1967], No. 6603/68. Heading A4C. In a machine for cutting meat into cubes the meat is fed from a hopper 5 to a horizontal screw feeding device 7 from where it is forced between reciprocating sets of blades 22 and 23 to be cut into strips of square cross-section and on emerging from said moving blades the strips are cut into cubes by a rotary blade 4 adjacent the outermost set of moving blades. The moving blade die 3 comprises a stationary frame 15 and two sets of moving blades 22 and 23 being carried and blocked at the ends thereof by carrier-members 24-25 and 26-27 respectively and connected by means of independent systems of eccentrics 29, 31, 39, 41 and pulleys to a single motor 64. The rotary blade 4 is caused to move close to the outermost blade set 22 by means of shaft 46 carrying gear wheel 49 intermeshing with a gear wheel 33 or shaft 32, on to which the bearing 24 is also connected by rotary member 31. In an alternative embodiment (Fig 4, not shown) the rotary blade 4 is driven via a speed changer.
Patent GB-1087584-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of silicone rubber vulcanisates
IPC: C08K9/06
Filed: 1965-02-16
Abstract: Silicone elastomer vulcanizates with a high resistance to ageing are prepared by working into the rubber before vulcanization, a silica which has been rendered bydrophobic by treatment with organic silicon halogen compounds; the resultant silica has a specific surface (BET) from 50 to 300 m.2 per g. and a silanol group concentration of 0.1 to 1.0 OH per 100<\>rA2.  It may have a carbon content of 1 to 3% by weight.  Dimethyl dichlorosilane is a suitable organic silicon halogen compound.  In the examples 35 parts of silica are used in a commercial silicone rubber and the products cured using dicumyl peroxide.
Patent GB-174894-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hand tools for cultivating the soil
IPC: A01B1/06
Filed: 1921-03-01
Abstract: 174,894. Witzel, K.. Feb. 3, 1921, [Convention date]. Addition to 167,452. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Hoes.-The rotary wooden drum of the handtool described in the parent Specification is replaced by discs 1, 2 connected by the wire frames 3 and carrying the pivots for the hinged hoeing blades 4. The discs may be circular, as shown in Fig. 2, with the frames 3 secured near the periphery, or portions may be cut away to leave arms carrying the frames. In a modification, small discs may be used, the frames being secured near the periphery and then bent outwards until they attain the desired position relative to the blades. In a further modification, the discs 1, 2 and the frames 3 are formed in one piece by stamping.
Patent GB-946094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in quartz to metal seals
IPC: C03C27/04
Filed: 1962-02-21
Abstract: <PICT:0946094/C1/1> <PICT:0946094/C1/2> Seals for electrical devices (e.g. infra-red lamps) comprising a member of fused silica or quartz and a sealed in lead-in conductor are adapted for use at elevated temperatures by constructing the outer lead 8 (Fig. 3), of oxidation resisting material, e.g. platinum and filling the cavity 9 (which is caused by the difference in the coefficient of expansion of the quartz and metal) with a low melting point lead-borate glass which forms a liquid seal at elevated temperatures and is held in the cavity by capillary action. The outer lead 8 is attached to an intermediate foliated portion 6 (preferably of molybdenum) which may be integral with the molybdenum inner lead 7. The glass 10 is introduced into the cavity 9 by slipping a bead of glass 11 (Fig. 2) of the low-melting point glass over the outer lead 8 of the otherwise completed lamp in an upright position.  Heat is applied to the surface of the seal portion 4 by a small oxyhydrogen flame, the bead melts and is drawn down into the capillary space 9. The glass composition is in parts by weight, preferred range in brackets:  0-10 (2-5) SiO2; 65-85 (70-80) PbO2; 10-20 (12-15) B2O3; 0-7 (1-5 Tl2O3; 0-5 (1-2) ZnO; 0-2 (0.25-1) CaO; 0-2 (0.25-1) K2O; 0-2 (0-0.5) Na2O; 0-2 (0-0.5) Li2O; 0-7 (1-4)F2.
Patent GB-1343744-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning of exhaust gas cleaning apparatus
IPC: F01N3/038
Filed: 1972-02-14
Abstract: 1343744 Exhaust gas filter; cyclone separator K AOI 14 Feb 1972 [15 Feb 1971 1 March 1971 17 March 1971] 6746/72 Headings BIT and B2P [Also in Division Fl] An I.C. engine exhaust gas cleaning apparatus containing filter material 7 is itself cleaned by supplying high pressure fluid through pipe 15 to flush out particles collected in material 7. The latter is contained in a cylinder 1 having perforated baffles 5, 6 and a perforated conduit 26. An upstream cyclone chamber 3 is provided to which engine exhaust gas is led through pipe 2. To clean the apparatus the engine is stopped and valve 32 opened to cause closing of pressure actuated dampers 2a and 8a, thus sealing the apparatus at both ends. Valve 16 is then opened and flushing fluid, e.g. compressed air, steam or exhaust gas, supplied through pipe 15, the flushed out matter passing through pipe 17 into a cyclone separating chamber 19. The separated particles drop to the bottom of the latter and are collected and compressed in reservoir 22 under the action of piston 23. The flushing fluid leaves chamber 19 through pipe 20 and filter 21. In a modification, Fig. 3 (not shown), the flushed-out matter is collected in a chamber (14a), which may be a removable cartridge, at the downstream end of cylinder 1. In a further arrangement, Fig. 1 (not shown) gas permeable net bags (13) may be used to collect the flushed-out matter.
Patent GB-577655-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to gas burners
IPC: F23D14/04
Filed: 1944-04-12
Abstract: 577,655. Gas burners. CANNON IRON FOUNDRIES, Ltd., CLAYTON. R. T., and OATLEY, A. F. April 12, 1944, No. 6757. [Class 75 (i)] A stout shield or protector plate 20 having openings or slots 25 corresponding to the positions of the burner jets 17 secured in the top of a gas chamber 10 is attached by screws 23 to pillars 18 integral with the gas chamber so that a downwardly projecting peripheral flange 21 on the plate is spaced sufficiently from the gas chamber to allow free access of air to the burner jets. The slots 25 may radiate from a central opening 24. The plate 20 may be supported at points intermediate the pillars 18 by lugs 19 on the chamber.
Patent GB-1027531-A (GB)
Title: Cargo transporting ship
IPC: B63B25/00
Filed: 1963-02-20
Abstract: 1,027,531. Timber carrying vessels. MITSUBISHI SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING CO. Ltd. Feb. 20, 1963 [Feb. 22, 1962], No. 6794/63. Heading B7A. A cargo ship has a hull comprising a single hold 2 (Figs. 1 and 2, not shown) extending the greater part of the length of the hull and a door or doors 8 at the bow and/or stern, the hold having a cross-section corresponding to an upwardly widening trapezium open at the upper side for loading rafts of timber (Fig. 4, not shown), a plurality of tanks 15 (Fig. 3, not shown) outboard of the hold being floodable to vary the draft of the ship to enable the rafts to be drawn through the opened door(s), and upper deck portions 4 being outboard of the hold. Collapsible struts 18 in the upper deck portions along each side of the hull form (together with sleepers 34) cargo loading space above the upper open end of the hold.
Patent GB-943916-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to mechanical drives
IPC: F16H19/00
Filed: 1960-02-26
Abstract: 943,916. Toothed gearing. HILMOR Ltd., and E. J. HAMPSON. Feb. 24, 1961 [Feb. 26, 1960], No. 6796/60. Heading F2Q. Rotation of a driving gear 11, in a direction reverse to that of its former direction of rotation, effects limited rotation of a driven sector gear 15, in a direction dependent on that of the rotation of the driving wheel, the drive being automatically discontinued when a predetermined angle of rotation of the driven member is reached and being reconnected when the direction of rotation of the driving gear is reversed to effect limited rotation in the reverse direction. Driving gear 11 meshes an idler gear 14 which is adapted to mesh a rear row of four teeth 18a on a rack 18 to move the rack 18 along a rod 19. A front row of two teeth 18b are adapted to engage a toothed sector 16 or 17 on the driven gear 15 in order to cause the toothed sector 17 or 16 to mesh the driving gear 11, thereby effecting rotation of the driven sector gear 15 until the sector 17 or 16 comes out of mesh with the gear 11. The rack 18 is located between springs 21, 22. The sector gear 15 has an eccentric boss 23 formed at its outer end whereby the mechanism may be utilized to produce reciprocating motion. The mechanism may be adapted to means for withdrawing a ball mandrel from a hollow tube which has been bent in a tube bending mechanism, controlled by limit switches actuated by a connecting rod in its extreme positions. Specification 943,918 is referred to.
Patent GB-400073-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved switch for electric irons and other electric hand tools
IPC: D06F79/02
Filed: 1933-03-08
Abstract: 400,073. Retractive switches. FELDMAN, J., 10, Flensburgerstrasse, Berlin. March 8, 1933, No. 7010. [Class 38 (v).] A switch that may be readily attached to the handle of an electric iron or other tool comprises an operating lever d pivoted to a base a having attachment feet b. Each foot b has a curved part to give rigidity and a flat part for securing to the handle c of the iron or tool. The lever d, which moves downwards against a retractive spring e, has pivoted to it an arm g<1> carrying loosely a contact g and acted upon by a compression spring h. By this arrangement the contact g aligns itself with and slides along the two fixed contacts f. In modifications. Figs. 5 and 6 (not shown) the moving contact enters between and presses apart two contacts mounted on leaf springs. The switch may be held in the "on" position by rotating a screw i so that it engages a flange on the plate a or a spring- influenced peg i may be used that is automatically released on full depression of the lever d as described in Specification 400,033. The switch may be used with the plug described in Specification 400,032, [Group XXXVI].